What goes around, comes around.
We know the Congressional Republican leaders are masters at hostage-taking. They've been doing it for the past couple years with the Obama administration -- and will again on raising the debt limit. But, those same leaders are now learning about being held hostage -- from the Teabaggers. The GOP's Medicare-killing budget is a political disaster. They know it. But, they can't do anything about it. The Tea Party won't let them. From The Hill:
“Members know that you don’t piss off senior citizens, and they know that this was handled badly, that there was no messaging, that Ryan’s not making his case and they are all looking down the road thinking, ‘Oh my God, it’s coming,’ ” the source said.So, for GOPers, either "the Tea Party will kill them" or they lose at the polls. Either works.
A separate GOP lawmaker, who faces a tough reelection race, told The Hill that there’s been talk of revisiting the Ryan Medicare plan. “How serious it is … don’t know,” the lawmaker said.
But a GOP official involved in the discussions told The Hill that the House Republican leadership absolutely cannot revisit the Ryan Medicare plan “or the Tea Party will kill them.”
